So let’s spice up the dreadful morning with a few items of (predictably) questionable taste.
And on a similar topic:
Okay, that’s enough political stuff. Let’s go deeper:
Some things that do have periods:
And on that bloody note, I’ll send you off into the week.
Hmmmm another Texas girl, this time Fort Worth’s Martha Hyer, the impossibly-beautiful ice-cold blonde actress whose career spanned the late 1940s through the late 1960s.
Yeah, for the Safety Nazis complaining about the finger on the trigger: relax, Francis. It’s a single-action un-cocked revolver.
Anyway, someone that beautiful can hold a gun any damn way she wants.
Watch as a family from New Zealand tries Texas BBQ for the first time…
…and if you don’t smile all the way through the video, we can’t be friends.
And they never even went to Hard 8 or Sonny’s.
Now that’s one journey I wouldn’t invite you on. Not into my mind, that is. You might not come back…
Taki, on the British voting system:
“One-third of the vote gave Labour two-thirds of the seats in Parliament. And it gets better—worse, that is. The Reform party got 4.1 million votes and five seats in Parliament. The Liberal Democrats received 3.6 million votes and got seventy seats in Parliament. If that’s democracy, I’m Kim Kardashian.”
I’m not a fan of “pure” democracy — popular vote decides parliamentary apportionment — and of course our U.S. electoral system isn’t that either, being a representative republic.
The problem with Taki’s idea of democracy is that it’s based (unsurprisingly) on the Classical Greek system. Except that in that system, over three-quarters of the voting-age population were excluded from voting before the first ballots were cast.
But I have to say that the Brit system does seem to be a few too many steps in the other direction.